* Arthur Torrey <[email protected]> [2021-11-14 22:17]: > As such, coming at folks w/ an attitude of 'proprietary is evil and > only Free solutions are acceptable' is not going to win friends... > We need to be willing to say that partially free / open is better > than totally locked down, even if it needs proprietary tools...
When somebody tells you "proprietary is evil" that is personal choice. My friends are free to tell me "proprietary is best", and they remain my friends. That I consider conversation. Which pair of underwear they wear, or if they wear at all, is their personal choice. On other hand, I have personal practical experiences where I didd win friends, even money because of that motto "proprietary is evil, free software is only acceptable". True. So much good time we have spent together. In the free software movement free software was always supported be it partially or fully. Most of the time of the GNU history there was partially free software until GNU/Linux distributions came, and long thereafter those distributions are still partially free, including today. That allows many choices for many people. But you can't expect from LibrePlanet to endorse proprietary software in order to "win friends" as it contradiction to the purposes of LibrePlanet. LibrePlanet is not to endorse partially free operating systems. Those are personal choices. Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
